Too new for any details.
Sonofabitch.
There are very few celebrity deaths that affect me. This will be one of them. RIP Dr. Hawking.
Bad news.
Stephen Hawking dies at 76.
Just a little late with your thread.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=851041
Only by 10 minutes.
Yeah, but eschereal had a better thread title!
Why, thank you.
Shit. 
“If you’re looking for trouble, you’ve found it.”
What a punch to the gut; I’ll be feeling this one for days.
Bring on the radiation.
For some reason, despite a condition that was clearly deteriorating him fast, and him being of an age, I just didn’t expect this.
Shazbot! :mad:
What a pisser. Given that he was given 2 years to live back in 1963, I’d say he gave it a pretty good run.
RIP, Stephen. The world is lessened with your passing.
76?!? I didn’t realize he was that old. Or that he would live that long.
Really sad news.
RIP Stephen
Well, damn. I knew he couldn’t live forever, and 76 is a good run for his condition. But… damn.
And he put it in the right forum.
Sad.
But we had the benefit of his mind for about 50 years more than there were reasonable expectations on his health.
If nothing else Brian Cox will be relieved he’s much less likely to be killed by a hit & runaround campus.
Yes. I thought of him as a sort of permanent fixture too.
RIP
AFAIK, the only person to portray himself in a Star Trek episode.